>mybellybutton.com
Frank,
Sorry bout your pb's, it's no comfort or solution but you are and extremely
small minority of Imail customers. Absolutely no product doesn't have a
customer like you.
I've just been through 2 days of email and there are some excellent
suggestions among way too much noise.
These SMPT processes eating your see pee you are the 'SMTP client' side of
the protocol, for sending mail (SMPTD daemon is the receiver/server). If
Imail is having trouble getting DNS to respond so Imail can discover the ip
of the destination MTA, as Dusty said, all bets are off.
btw, you say your DNS is ok, but if the Imail is in the same Class C as
bellybutton.com, then Imail's reverse is not setup because the reverese
zone of entire Class C of 207.254.90.200 is not setup. So, I have to
question your mastery of DNS setup.
check this: http://www.samspade.org/t/dnl.cgi?a=207.254.90.200 zilch
More and more servers will not accept mail if the sender"s reverse doesn't
resolve. yours apparently doesn't.
How are your ip's and tcp/ip are setup in the Imail machine? When I
started with Imail in mid 97, the colo people screwed the ip for the DNS in
NT of my Imail. I could receive mail. Imail could apparently send but the
log told me every attempt was 'MX connect' fail. very weird. Eric or
Daniel of Ipswitch helped me and found the pb. I was in eval mode, unpaid
product.
How have you entered DNS into Imail. ip or hostname? Can you switch to a
totally different DNS for Imail's lookups? quick and easy
You were asked to look in your logs. I missed your response. You want to
concentrate on the SMTP processes. pick one, follow it carefully and see
what status Imail gives it when it can't be delivered. do you see any SMTP
dialogs with errors or rejections?
do log searchs for the strings 'mx connect', or "err", "unknown" ,
also pay special attention to the smtp response from the SMPTD
servers. see RFC 821 for what these codes mean. If you see some 400's or
500's, then text search on them to see if they are sporadic or chronic.
Dusty mentioned spam. how is your smtp security setup?
Len
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